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              THE MAROON ESTABLISHED 1923 VOL. 75 NO. 22 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1997 SGA reconsiders senior week money By PIERCE PRESLEY Staff writer Take a Number Students waited in line for more than two hours Tuesday as tickets for the Mikhail Gorbachev speech were given away at the ticket booth in the Communications/ Music Complex. Photos by BETH McGOVERN Gorbachev's visit detailed, See Pg. 3. Senior Week will begin May 5 as scheduled with a little help from the Student Government Association, but this expense could put SGA in the red if organizations spend all of the money allocated to them. SGA approved by an unopposed voice vote a resolution authored by Chandler Abel to give the Student Alumni Association more than $2,900 for Senior Week activities. SGA's account contains enough money, but all of it is already allocated to student organizations. Huy Vu, SGA vice president and international business junior cites funds not spent by organizations last year as the rationale behind the expenditure and does not expect any shortage. At the end of the spring 1996 semester, 34 percent of funds allocated to organizations remained unused. SAA did not receive funds from SGA at the start of the year because of problems with its application, according to Vu. The SGA constitution allows an organization to apply to the Ways and Means Committee for funds outside of the normal budgetary process. Despite the money not spent by organizations, SGA started this school year $800 in debt because of spending at the Rowland hopes to pick bio chair this summer By ANNA MITCHELL Staff writer The search for a permanent biology chair may come to an end this summer, according to interim chairman and Arts and Sciences dean, Robert Rowland. He is responsible for making a recommendation of a Loyola faculty member to David Danahar, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, and hopes to make the decision this summer. Rowland has held the position since spring 1995 when Craig Hood resigned. Many members of the Loyola community feel that the biology department needs a permanent chair as soon as possible. "He (Dean Rowland) can't do what a normal chair would be able to while dividing his time between the entire college. He can't do it effectively. The department has suffered because of this," said Donald Hauber, associate biology professor. Some students agree. "I am worried I'll get someone who doesn't know what is going on. There seems to be a lot of confusion in the department," said Margaret Couvillon, biology/pre-med freshman. Rowland said, "It wasn't easy, but we managed to do all the essentials. "Administrative skills, the ability to move papers, and get things done in a timely manner, also the ability to deal with diverse groups and individuals are all things we are looking for (in a chair)." Loyola reacts to Knoth's vision for the future of the campus By STEPHEN STUART Editor in Chief Some in the Loyola community have expressed mixed reactions to the Board of Trustees-approved $68 million capital strategy program and the master plan for future campus development now on display in several buildings. The capital strategy program, approved by the Board of Trustees Nov. 22, details dozens of new projects, renovations and improvements to the university, like the new library and fiber optic computer network. One part of the capital strategy program is the master campus plan, a look ahead at the campus layout five years and 30 years from now. Kathleen O'Gorman, associate City College professor, said the university seems to have passed over its own experts on biology and the environment when designing the master plan for the campus. Faculty contributions also need to be sought more in other areas, including how Loyola stewards its resources and shapes its educational vision and curricula, O'Gorman said. The university should ask itself, "What kind of education should Loyola be preparing to offer students at this time in history?" she said. O'Gorman also said the plans for the campus manipulate its environment for the sake of image. "There's a lack of biological and ecological sensitivity in why we're chopping up the campus, in my experience. The landscaping suggests more of a manipulation of than a reverence for what grows on this campus," she said. On the other hand, a campus appealing to the eye enhances learning, said William Cotton, English professor. "It is something everyone has. I think it is morale-building." Cotton added that Loyola has also been making strides in other areas that cannot be quantified as easily as buildings or trees, but are just as essential — good teaching and advising, for example. Physics professor Carl Brans, interviewed after the April 10 Budgets run low on money By MICHAEL GIUSTI Assistant News Editor Relief for departments hurting from funds placed in escrow last semester does not appear imminent. Although no estimates can be made this early, money will not be available next semester, according to the Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president. Knoth said money will be held over next year, but it is still uncertain how much. According to Robert Rowland, dean of Arts and Sciences, mismanagement by the individual departments is why some are running out of money now. "We are seeing some departments that did not do adequate planning," Rowland said. "They knew on the first of August they had a certain sum of money to spend through July 31, and they did not adequately take into account the realities of what needs to be done in April, June and July," he said. The University Budget Committee decides how much money the university needs to function. According to Antonio Lopez, math and computer science professor and ÜBC member, Knoth makes the final decision on how much money is allocated and to what departments. The amount allocated to each department and how much money is held over in escrow is determined by the number of students enrolled in the university. Money put in escrow is not money the university decides not to use, Knoth said. Rather, it is a category in the budget that was never funded. Rowland said that although some areas of the college are running low on money, they will not be left to fend for themselves without money to run the day-to-day operations of their departments. "Some departments are without money or close to out-of-money. For some of the departments out money, there are some restricted accounts and gift accounts to help cover those shortages," Rowland said. Some areas in the College of Arts and Sciences cut to make up for the money lost in escrow include faculty travel, part-time sections offered and equipment upgrades, according to Rowland. "We cut back on travel in our collegewide budget I originally was not going to fund travel at all, but we did end up funding some," Rowland said. See SGA, Pg. 5 See REACTION, Pg. 5 See ESCROW, Pg.3 FT ff Planning Ahead *% University planning V team discusses faculty publishing issues. Double Play Loyola socks it to Mississippi College in doubleheader thrashing. —-rr/ll Beauty Mark i Body art has special kIH meaning for Loyola and Tulane students. _ Pg. 11